Shape
For Educators & students

Shape model behavior.

Your students already use AI. Understand how its answers get made — where they come from, how much they vary, and how they're judged — by changing one thing at a time and watching what moves.

You already know how to check an answer.

Source-checking, rubric grading, and knowing one essay isn't the whole student — the habits of good teaching are the habits of understanding a model.

A suggested path.

  1. 01LessonPrompts as designA prompt is a variable you can change and test — not a magic spell.
  2. 02PlaygroundDiff modeRun one prompt through two configurations side-by-side. The fastest way to feel how prompts shape outputs.
  3. 03LessonContext is the interfaceYour system prompt is a fraction of what the model reads. The rest arrives at runtime, from systems nobody designed.
  4. 04PlaygroundContext labOne question, several context sets. Your system prompt is a fraction of what the model reads — see the rest, and where the answer came from.
  5. 05LessonEvaluationRubrics + sample sets. Make “good” measurable — then find out what your rubric actually rewards.
  6. 06PlaygroundEval labRubric-based evaluation. Define what good looks like, score the model against it, watch the average move.
  7. 07ExperimentDoes a longer answer get a better grade?An AI grader scores the same student answer with and without filler that adds nothing.